commenter

noun

com·ment·er ˈkä-ˌmen-tər

variants or less commonly commentor

plural commenters also commentors

: one who comments

especially : one who leaves a comment on an Internet site, story, page, etc.

… every blogger and commenter and self-anointed pundit, could outperform any robot writer at a fraction of the cost. —Paul Di Filippo

Many websites which allow users to leave comments … use a system called Captcha to check that the commenter is not a computer programme (or 'bot') leaving spam comments. —Nick Poyntz

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What readers are saying The comments discuss a case involving a person who sent letters containing a suspicious substance, with many commenters criticizing the individual's intelligence for including his return address. — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026 Viral videos have led to outrage online, with many commenters arguing that visitors were more interested in taking photos than enjoying the mountains, Fox News Digital previously reported. — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Other guesses had commenters point to The Substance, The Little Mermaid’s Ursula, SpongeBob, and the Demogorgons from Stranger Things. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2026 One commenter apparently had questions about the connectivity between the projects in the DC Cinematic Universe being created by James Gunn and Peter Safran. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for commenter

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14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of commenter was in the 14th century

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